7/7 bombing Metropolitan Police has been described as “Watershed Moment” Terrorism squadThe head of the force has said.
Team helped to help London Attack on 7 July 2005And stayed in the capital for the next two decades.
In 2005, Commander Dominic Murphy was an officer at Hertfordshire for 12 years and trained as a bomb visual examiner before attacks on the transport system. Killed 52 people and injured hundreds,
When he saw scary horror on television, he “did the work that police officers should not actually do” and went to London before being officially posted.
Mr. Murphy said: “I was an officer who could have been asked to help SO13 (met the former anti -terrorism branch) in London or any other part of the country, if he was responding to a terrorist attack, or somehow discovered or supported them.
“And I remember that I was sitting in a special branch office, which is our intelligence unit in Hertfordshire, and I was watching it on TV, and I did the work that police officers should not actually do.
“I didn’t wait to be posted. I talked to my line manager and grabbed a car and all my kits and equipment and to go straight to London as soon as possible as soon as possible.”
The compassion shown by the officials investigating the bomb blasts and the speed with which he worked, inspired him to spend the rest of his career into an anti-terrorism.
Mr. Murphy said: “I reached our forensic management team.
“These were officers and employees who were leading the reaction to the screen to gather evidence and fix those who were unfortunately killed in the incident.
“I arrived to do something that I would really describe as a high speed of activity, the kind of activity you will expect to hopes to hopes to do such a terrible incident, but of course, it was on a scale and a type of incident that we had never seen.
“I was killed by all the anti-Terrorism officials of the So13, their professionalism, their commitment to find out who I met, their commitment to find out, their heavy compassion for the victims … that compassion expanded how they were recovered from the attacks.
“I was killed to see professionalism and speed on which I was working till the end of that first day. I never wanted to work anywhere else.
“I really wanted to work with this group of only people I thought there were some of the most influential people I had ever seen, and the way the commitment painted themselves to the public and the victims were heavy to me.
“So I was a Heartfordshire officer for about 12 years at that time, but I never really went to Heartfordshire.
“I lived here then, and stayed here in anti-terrorism for the rest of my career.”
He specializes in body recovery, and deployed abroad to help in investigating several atrocities related to British victims or interests, including the 2015 Tunisian beach attacks as well as tragedies in Algeria, Yemen and Sudan.